I will start this by noting that this is a bedroom TV/2nd TV for football and I do not really care for LCD’s. 
That being said, I’ve been looking for an upgrade from my 2009 32” Panny for a while now. Samsung plasma was on the list, as well as Samsung and LG LCD’s. My dad has owned three insignia LCD’s in varying sizes and loved them all, I’ll even admit I thought the PQ was very nice for the price. Fast forward to now and everything I was looking at was going to cost me $400+ (wanted smart functions too), so I put my hands on this LED LCD early this week. For roughly $320, I got this 39” set plus the Roku stick (TV has a MHL port on it) and it works surprising well.
I broke out my meter, and while this does not really have any calibration control, I set light output to 35fl, color, brightness, contrast etc… and then checked grayscale in color temp modes. Set came in super torch mode BTW, with white test bars being severely clipped. I had to take contrast all the way down to 35 to get the bars to show up mostly as they should, and then used backlight for light output adjustment. Actually ended up with a 35 backlight setting as well, so this set will go WAAAAAY brighter (not that someone would need it IMO).
Brightness was spot on as it came at 50, and color was set to 75 out of the box (I ended up at 37). After all that was calibrated, I have to say for $249 + tax, I am very happy. The increased size will help in both the living room as a 2nd football TV and the bedroom as needed. My only complaints are the viewing angle is not as good as the old IPS Panny panel (not a problem for me), and even in warm mode it I still too blue. I get almost 8000k color temp with my meter, and a dE of under 10 for the whole grayscale run. The Panny had the normal service menu grayscale adjustment so I was able to get color temp where it needed to be. Not huge, but a con. Looking forward to the next several days with all the college rivalry games; should be a blast with65” and 39” displays going
http://www.insigniaproducts.com/products/televisions/NS-39D400NA14.html
Roku stick rebate came in the box.
That being said, I’ve been looking for an upgrade from my 2009 32” Panny for a while now. Samsung plasma was on the list, as well as Samsung and LG LCD’s. My dad has owned three insignia LCD’s in varying sizes and loved them all, I’ll even admit I thought the PQ was very nice for the price. Fast forward to now and everything I was looking at was going to cost me $400+ (wanted smart functions too), so I put my hands on this LED LCD early this week. For roughly $320, I got this 39” set plus the Roku stick (TV has a MHL port on it) and it works surprising well.
I broke out my meter, and while this does not really have any calibration control, I set light output to 35fl, color, brightness, contrast etc… and then checked grayscale in color temp modes. Set came in super torch mode BTW, with white test bars being severely clipped. I had to take contrast all the way down to 35 to get the bars to show up mostly as they should, and then used backlight for light output adjustment. Actually ended up with a 35 backlight setting as well, so this set will go WAAAAAY brighter (not that someone would need it IMO).
Brightness was spot on as it came at 50, and color was set to 75 out of the box (I ended up at 37). After all that was calibrated, I have to say for $249 + tax, I am very happy. The increased size will help in both the living room as a 2nd football TV and the bedroom as needed. My only complaints are the viewing angle is not as good as the old IPS Panny panel (not a problem for me), and even in warm mode it I still too blue. I get almost 8000k color temp with my meter, and a dE of under 10 for the whole grayscale run. The Panny had the normal service menu grayscale adjustment so I was able to get color temp where it needed to be. Not huge, but a con. Looking forward to the next several days with all the college rivalry games; should be a blast with65” and 39” displays going
http://www.insigniaproducts.com/products/televisions/NS-39D400NA14.html
Roku stick rebate came in the box.
